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Fedora Server SIG

Welcome on the home of Fedora Server SIG. We are a group which would like to use Fedora as a server on bare metal or in virtual environment that may or may not provide graphical capabilities. Our focus is mainly on Fedora server components, and features like networking, head-less support, or iSCSI. You can object that there are no Fedora server users, but they are there - either running Fedora itself or distributions based on Fedora such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.

Rationale

Fedora can be deployed in many environments and for many purposes. However, not every typical deployment is represented by a group that focuses on needs of such particular deployment. One of typical deployments (Desktop) is covered by Desktop Team. We would like to cover typical server deployment, which raises few challenges and is represented by a unique set of requirements. Our goals are based on such requirements and current state of Fedora and are listed in the next section.

In an ideal world requirements of all deployments scenarios complement each other, but in the real life there are conflicts. Our main goal is to find a technical solution - by maintaining compatibility, with possibility to enable/disable certain features, etc. We think that the main problem is the lack of communication between groups and we would like to focus from the very beginning on improving it. The second goal is to help separate current and emerging desktop oriented applications from the base system and to help their developers to correctly integrate applications' features into base system.